INTRODUCTION

CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHT

The British Standards Institution defines facilities management as: "The integration of processes within an organization to maintain and develop the agreed services which support and improve the effectiveness of its primary activities”.

Facilities employees have responsibilities for providing, maintaining and developing many services. These range from property strategy, space management and communications infrastructure to building maintenance, administration and contract management. Facilities management includes space, infrastructure, people and organization.

This highly popular conference will discuss how to establish, implement, manage and continually improve your facility department to get the best out of the facilities within the given boundaries of costs, performance and other important factors during its total lifetime.

The conference will discuss how develop participant’s skills in managing and work with facility staff and corporate assets while minimizing risk exposure in the workplace. As the Facilities Management (FM) function continues to evolve.

This conference offers the latest thinking in the profession, right balance between asset performance (functionality, availability, reliability, safety), and will tackle specific issues encountered on the ground and apply best practices in discussing real solutions.

An Overview of Facilities Management

The Basic Elements of Facilities Management

Preventive Maintenance and Maintenance Strategy

Outsourcing and Contracting

Performance Monitoring and Benchmarking

OBJECTIVES

Understand the basics of facilities management

Understand how to draw up a preventive maintenance concept, based on risk

Develop strategies to decide when and what to outsource

Understand the different types of contracts

Identify and monitor the facilities management-processes performance

WHO IS PARTICIPATE IN THIS CONFERENCE?

This international conference is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

· Professionals who are responsible for the management, operation and maintenance of facilities (buildings, production facilities, utilities, power and water distributions networks landscaping, etc.)

· Professionals aiming to update themselves on the basic elements, best practices and implementation aspects of facilities management